Wednesday, February 4, 2015

The Depth of Meaning

I guess that I am a cynic, but I don’t take people at face
value. For instance, I don’t think that
Mike Huckabee loves God. I think that he,
like so many other clowns in the Rightwing clown car, is playing on the
primeval fear of the ignorant to springboard to power. This is extremely dangerous because it is
this deep-seated fear that lead to the horrors of the Crusades, Inquisitions
and Burning Times, to name but a few atrocities. After much thought, I also don’t think that
he is crazy. I think he – like the rest
of the parasites – plays crazy like a violin.

I don’t think that people who, for instance, put firing
ranges in their front yard in Florida are defending the 2nd
Amendment, Freedom or Liberty. I think
they are selfish, recalcitrant and defiant children who haven’t enough inside
of themselves to live as adults so they seize on the trappings of
adulthood. I don’t think they give a
damn about anyone else’s Freedom or Liberty, much less comprehend that those
things must be shared by all to be meaningful to any; and accordingly they aren't
old enough to own a gun.

I don’t think that parents who fail to vaccinate their
children are engaged in naturalism or thoughtful parenting. I think they are lazy and that they are
counting on the phenomenon of herd immunity to protect them. Clearly they haven’t reasoned out the fact
that such immunity is a percentage matter.
That is to say the fewer the number of herd members vaccinated, the less
effective the immunity of the whole. I
can find no other explanation for people who even when idiotic theories are
roundly disproven persist in adhering to them to the potential detriment of
those same children.

I will not accept government hating as mitigating in these
situations. I have seen too many of
these “government haters” put their sticky hand out to collect the government’s
largess or jump on the bandwagon, political or otherwise, to suck off her tit which
is by the way our tit.

No this isn't about faith, ideology, principle or values. This is about the use and often the abuse of
people by other people whose depth of soul as National Lampoon once said,
“…would scarcely get your feet wet.”